Joost de Gouw

  • Professor
  • Institute Fellow, CIRES
  • Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs
  • CHEMISTRY
  • COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (CIRES)
Address

Office: Cristol Chemistry 354

Lab: Cristol Chemistry 328

Education

MSc: Physics, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1990

PhD: Physics, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 1994 (cum laude)

Postdoctoral Fellow: JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, 1994-1996

Postdoctoral Fellow: NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, 1997-1998

 

Areas of Expertise

Atmospheric Chemistry, Volatile Organic Compounds, Mass Spectrometry, Air Quality, Climate Change

 

Awards and Honors

  • 2024, Award for Excellence In Research, Scholarly and Creative Work, Boulder Faculty Assembly
  • 2022, Co-recipient, Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
  • 2022, Healthy Community Award, Boulder County Public Health
  • 2020, Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
  • 2018, Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in the category Cross-Field
  • 2018, Honorable Mention, Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
  • 2018, Recipient of “Make Our Planet Great Again” grant est. by President Macron (declined)
  • 2017, Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in the Geosciences
  • 2017, Co-recipient, Outstanding Paper Award, NOAA Oceanic & Atmospheric Research
  • 2014, Co-recipient, Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
  • 2012, Co-recipient, Colorado Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
  • 2007, CIRES Outstanding Performance Award
  • 1998, Recipient of FOM Springplank Fellowship
  • 1994, Cum Laude PhD graduate, University of Utrecht

 

Emissions, chemistry and loss processes of organic carbon in both the gas and particle phases in the Earth's atmosphere. The atmospheric formation of secondary pollutants such as ozone and aerosol and their influence on air quality and climate. Development and use of mass spectrometric and other methods for measurements of volatile organic compounds. Analysis of satellite remote sensing data on the composition of Earth's atmosphere.

  • Rutherford, M., Koss, A. R., and de Gouw, J. A.: Mobile VOC Measurements in Commerce City, CO, Reveal the Emissions from Different Sources, JA&WMA, 74, 714-725, doi:10.1080/10962247.2024.2379927, 2024. 
  • Bradley, A., Croes, B. E., Harkins, C., McDonald, B. C., and de Gouw, J. A.: Air pollution inequality in the Denver metroplex and its relationship to historical redlining, Environ. Sci. Technol., 58, 4226-4236, doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c03230, 2024. 
  • Anderson, L., Dix, B., Schnell, J. L., Yokelson, R. J., Veefkind, J. P., Ahmadov, R., and de Gouw, J. A.: Analyzing the Impact of Evolving Combustion Conditions on the Composition of Wildfire Emissions Using Satellite Data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 50, e2023GL105811, doi:10.1029/2023GL105811, 2023. 
  • Jenks, O., DeVault, M., Ziola, A., Morris, M., Schueneman, M., Stark, H., Jimenez, J. L., Ziemann, P. J., and de Gouw, J. A.: Investigation of the Gas-Phase Products from the NO3 Radical Oxidation of Δ-3-Carene, ACS Earth Space Chem., 7, 1097–1106, doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00020, 2023. 
  • Dix, B., Li, M., Roosenbrand, E., Francoeur, C., Brown, S. S., Gilman, J. B., Hanisco, T. F., Keutsch, F. N., Koss, A. R., Lerner, B. M., Peischl, J., Roberts, J. M., Ryerson, T. B., St. Clair, J., Veres, P. R., Warneke, C., Wild, R. J., Wolfe, G. M., Yuan, B., Veefkind, J. P., Levelt, P. F., McDonald, B. C., and de Gouw, J. A.: Sources of Formaldehyde in U.S. Oil and Gas Production Regions, ACS Earth Space Chem., 7, 2444–2457, doi:10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00203, 2023. 
  • Jensen, A., Liu, Z., Tan, W., Dix, B., Chen, T., Koss, A. R., Zhu, L., Li, L., and de Gouw, J. A.: Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Changzhou, China, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL095560, doi:10.1029/2021GL095560, 2021. 
  • Pagonis, D., Sekimoto, K. and de Gouw, J. A.: A library of proton-transfer reactions of H3O+ ions used for trace gas detection, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 30, 1330–1335, doi:10.1007/s13361-019-02209-3, 2019.
  • McDonald, B. C., de Gouw, J. A., Gilman, J. B., Jathar, S. H., Akherati, A., Cappa, C. D., Jimenez, J. L., Lee-Taylor, J., Hayes, P. L., McKeen, S. A., Cui, Y., Kim, S.-W., Gentner, D. R., Isaacman-VanWertz, G. A., Goldstein, A. H., Harley, R. A., Frost, G., Roberts, J. M., Ryerson, T. B. and Trainer, M.: Volatile Chemical Products Emerging as Largest Petrochemical Source of Urban Organic Emissions, Science, 359, 760–764, doi:10.1126/science.aaq0524, 2018. 
  • Krechmer, J. E., Lopez-Hilfiker, F. D., Koss, A. R., Hutterli, M. A., Stoermer, C., Deming, B. L., Kimmel, J. R., Warneke, C., Holzinger, R., Jayne, J. T., Worsnop, D. R., Fuhrer, K., Gonin, M. and de Gouw, J. A.: Evaluation of a New Reagent-Ion Source and Focusing Ion-Molecule Reactor for use in Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry, Anal. Chem., 90, 12011–12018, doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02641, 2018. 
  • Yuan, B., Koss, A. R., Warneke, C., Coggon, M., Sekimoto, K. and de Gouw, J. A.: Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometry: Applications in Atmospheric Sciences, Chem. Rev., 117, 13187–13229, doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00325, 2017.